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Show DOMESTIC BRIEFS. j California fruit, although sold : cheaply on New York btreetn, pays a ! profit. j Sixty thousand Texas cattle have reached the Plttto river this Beacon, and 15,000 are yet to come. The BubafTiptioiie to the 4 per cent, bonda on Thursday amounted to $3,00,000. The total subscription previously reported was Sl, 792,000. Vice Pri'Bidetit Wheeler is eujoying excellent health at hi home at Malone, and re f lined lo allow hid serenity to be milled by the many rumors circulating in the newspapers about him. By the jumping of a passenger train on the St. Louis and Cairo railroad rail-road nearly all the puss en pern were injured, the express meeaenger fatally, and the mail agent conductor and brakeman seriously. The president in reply to a delegation delega-tion from the Kansas republican association as-sociation Btated that no person in public employ could he allowed to belong to a Btate political association, or take any part in politics whatever. A strong delegation of New York colored men have waited upon the executive committee of the Cuban league and giveu formal expression to the sympathy of the colored residents resi-dents of that city with struggling Cuba. The president has commissioned E. II. C. Hooper of Maine as agent for the Indians of Sissiton agency, Dnko la, and John S. Mai lory, jr., of Oregon, agent for the Indians of Colorado River agency, Arizona. No political services can be rendered ren-dered by a government employe" at any time while he holds such position, even though it does not interfere with his duties, as it is the president intention in-tention to forever divorce politics and the civil service so far as it lies in his power. A French paper explaiaa that the recent purchases of salt beef and pork recently nib.de in Chicago on account of the French government have not been made with any view of preparation prepara-tion for immediate war, but solely to stock the fortresses of France with provisions. The action of Mississippi republicans republi-cans in disbanding is regarded as the the beginning of a movement on the part , of the republicans of all the southern stales which are hopelessly democratic, to suspend their contest and allow their opponents to divide, it they will, into Hayes and anti-Hayes democrats. |